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Test Manager

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Test Manager

£50,000 - £60,000 per annum

Oxford, Oxfordshire

Test Manager required by a leading technology company based in Oxford. Due to continued success and planned expansion the company are looking to hire a Test Manager to build and establish a new test team.

This is an excellent opportunity for the Test Manager to make this brand-new role their own and define, implement and manage a test environment suitable for end-to-end testing of the company's products.

The successful candidates' responsibilities will include;

- Building a new test team providing end-to-end acceptance testing

- Developing the test strategy

- Utilise live customer environments where necessary to further prove new functionalities

- Ensure there is a suitable test plan for each candidate release of new functionality

- Ensure a sufficiently rigorous set of testing is undertaken of both new functionality and relevant existing functionality, before release to customers

- Define specifications of requirements in such a way as to enable independent testing

- Encourage continuous improvement in tools, methodologies and processes and manage stakeholders across the organisation to ensure buy-in.

Essential experience;

- Experience of product testing within a modern software development environment

- Experience of managing others

- Ability to work across an organisation to successfully manage internal stakeholders

- Strong planning skills, natural problem-solver, curious, independent, a team-player

- Track record of delivering on your commitments

If you are looking for an opportunity of this nature, please contact CharlieFayers@SpectrumIT.co.uk or call 02380 765298.